Apparently the Senate administrative director's Listserv got a little sassy Thursday morning, with Sen. Susan Collins' administrative director telling Sen. David Vitter's administrative director that her office's priority should be to avoid a government shutdown, not determine who is nonessential staff.

Multiple sources of both parties (laughs are bipartisan!) sent this exchange HOH's way, and it is awesome. If we can't laugh at the upcoming tedium of being at the Capitol at all hours for days on end as a government shutdown looms, what can we laugh at?